Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-11-04
HORSE GOSSIP.

Counsellor Crawford intends to enter
the trotting breeders business in the vi
cinity OF Lexington, KY.
The famous black gelding Gonfalon dice
at Sheepshead Bay on Wednesday He
Won some pretty fair races in his day.
James Rowe will train for August Bel
mont next season. Georg eOyster recent
" sold by w. B. Jennings for $4,000 will
be in his care.
Aristmont by Aristos, recently showed
trial over Mystic in 2:29, and repeated
in 23Oh. He was bred by the Rev. Ruen
Thomas and his dam was by Almont.
Nj. Lupin's Dollar, who won the North
amtonshire stakes and the Goodwood Cur
| in 1864, has just died in France at the age
of "a. His stock have won upward OF
100000 and he leaves some smart horses
to run for him.
Paceland, probably the best 2yea- old
In IN the country, put up 122 pounds on
Thursday and ran six furlongs on a soft
| track in the remarkably fast time OF 1:l4
After the race he was sold to Appleby &,
johnson for S35, 900.
On Saturday the directors of the Ken
lucky Trotting Horse Breeders associa-
ton at Lexington reelected Il. A. Upton
as secretary, and named the second Mon
day in October next year as the day on
which to begin the next fall meeting.
AA.ocSAb ehC IChOJ WluucT VI 1910, VINO
has been standing as sire for some time
in Austria, was announced to be sold by
phoiloauction on the racecourse at Wen
na on the 23d instant. This step was to
be taken to dissolve partnership.
AT San Francisco, Saturday, Governor
Stanford's Sable Wilkes, accompanied by
running mate, started to beat the 3-year.
| Old record or 2:l9l4 and succeeded in max
ing the llrst quarter in 35S the half in
l:0953, the three quarters in la, and the
| mile easily in 2:lS.
Abraham, son of Daniel Lambert, gets
another $50 performer in the mare Jen-
| ME, which trotted in 2:291d, 2:274 and
2:29i3 at Providence a short time ago, and
another 22O performer. in the PAGER
Brlghtwood In The stable of A. Wood
ward. Abraham has seven in the 2:3O
list, leading all sons of Daniel Lambert
| and all stations in Vermont except his
sire.
a performer that has established her
self warm favorte with horsemen and
the public in the New England circuit is
the handsome little inbred Morgan PAGER
Allen Maid. In 10 races in which she has
started she has won eight first moneys,
and has steadily reduced her record until
she now has "a record of 2:2019. She is
seven years old, and was bred and is
owned by A. b. Ashley, owner of
Ashley's Ethan Allen, and is the pro-
prietor of a stock farm at Milton
VI Her breeding is as follows: Got BY
Ashley's Ethan Allen; dam by grandson
o. Billy Root, second dam by Adamss Fly
ing Morgan. Ashley's Ethan Allen was
by Ethan Allen, son of Vermont Black
Hawk dam by IIawkeye, he by Vermont
Black Hawk, out of Il daughter of Morgan
Emperor granddam by old Telescope, by
Potomac, by imported Messenger. Not
only Is she beauty to look at, but she is
one OF the cleanest moving side'wheelers
on the turf. An offer of $1,000 has been
refused for her Mr.. Ashley has at his
farm Ethan Maid, Gold Maid and Morgan
Maid, by Ashley's Ethan Allen, and all
are speedy and promising. Score another
2:30 (and almost 300 performer for the
rOr.